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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Prison

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

90exact KJV occurrences 47Old Testament 43New Testament 17books containing the word 16mapped Strong's IDs 90occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 39:20

And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 20:7

And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where prison appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 108 verses Judges 22 verses 1 Kings 11 verses 2 Kings 33 verses 2 Chronicles 22 verses Nehemiah 22 verses Psalms 11 verses Ecclesiastes 11 verses Isaiah 65 verses Jeremiah 1917 verses Matthew 1010 verses Mark 33 verses Luke 55 verses John 11 verses Acts 2120 verses 1 Peter 11 verses Revelation 22 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

GreekG5438
φυλακή

phylakḗ · foo-lak-ay'

33 times translated as this KJV form50 total Strong's occurrences

a guarding or (concretely, guard), the act, the person; figuratively, the place, the condition, or (specially), the time (as a division of day or night), literally or figuratively

Strong's KJV usage: :--cage, hold, (im-)prison(-ment), ward, watch.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Matthew 5:25Strong's last: Revelation 20:7

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HebrewH1004
בַּיִת

bayith · bah'-yith

16 times translated as this KJV form2,046 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)

Strong's KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, × great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter) house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 39:20Strong's last: Jeremiah 52:31

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HebrewH4307
מַטָּרָא

maṭṭârâʼ · mat-taw-raw'

13 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

a jail (as a guard-house); also an aim (as being closely watched)

Strong's KJV usage: mark, prison.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Nehemiah 3:25Strong's last: Jeremiah 39:15

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GreekG1201
δεσμωτήριον

desmōtḗrion · des-mo-tay'-ree-on

4 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences

a place of bondage, i.e. a dungeon

Strong's KJV usage: :--prison.

Strong's first: Matthew 11:2Strong's last: Acts 16:26

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HebrewH4525
מַסְגֵּר

maçgêr · mas-gare'

3 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a fastener, i.e. (of a person) a smith, (of a thing) a prison

Strong's KJV usage: prison, smith.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Psalms 142:7Strong's last: Isaiah 42:7

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GreekG1200
δεσμοφύλαξ

desmophýlax · des-mof-oo'-lax

2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

a jailer (as guarding the prisoners)

Strong's KJV usage: :--jailor, keeper of the prison.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Acts 16:27Strong's last: Acts 16:36

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GreekG3612
οἴκημα

oíkēma · oy'-kay-mah

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

a tenement, i.e. (specially), a jail

Strong's KJV usage: :--prison.

Strong's first: Acts 12:7Strong's last: Acts 12:7

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GreekG5084
τήρησις

tḗrēsis · tay'-ray-sis

1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

a watching, i.e. (figuratively) observance, or (concretely) a prison

Strong's KJV usage: :--hold.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Acts 5:18Strong's last: Acts 5:18

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HebrewH612
אֵסוּר

ʼêçûwr · ay-soor'

1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a bond (especially manacles of a prisoner)

Strong's KJV usage: band, prison.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Jeremiah 37:15Strong's last: Jeremiah 37:15

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HebrewH4929
מִשְׁמָר

mishmâr · mish-mawr'

1 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a guard (the man, the post or the prison); a deposit (figuratively); also (as observed) a usage (abstractly), or an example (concretely)

Strong's KJV usage: diligence, guard, office, prison, ward, watch.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 42:19Strong's last: Genesis 42:19

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HebrewH6495
פְּקַח־קוֹחַ

pᵉqach-qôwach · pek-akh-ko'-akh

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

opening (of a dungeon), i.e. jail-delivery (figuratively, salvation for sin)

Strong's KJV usage: opening of the prison.

Strong's first: Isaiah 61:1Strong's last: Isaiah 61:1

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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1 Kings 22:27
H1004

And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

prison

PRISON, noun priz'n. [Latin prendo.]

1. In a general sense, any place of confinement or involuntary restraint; but appropriately, a public building for the confinement or safe custody of debtors and criminals committed by process of law; a jail. Originally, a prison as Lord Coke observes, was only a place of safe custody; but it is now employed as a place of punishment. We have state-prisons, for the confinement of criminals by way of punishment.

2. Any place of confinement or restraint.

The tyrant Aeolus,

With power imperial curbs the struggling winds,

And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds.

3. In Scripture, a low, obscure, afflicted condition. Ecclesiastes 4:14.

4. The cave where David was confined. Psalms 142:7.

5. A state of spiritual bondage. Isaiah 42:7.

PRIS'ON, verb transitive To shut up in a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.

1. To confine in any manner.

2. To captivate; to enchain.

[This word is proper, but imprison is more commonly used.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

SOURCE & METHOD

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KJV English usageExact token counts, verse counts, first/last occurrence, and book distribution come from the canonical TWBC PCE KJV index.
Webster 1828Historical English dictionary material is reproduced as dictionary data, not as inspired Scripture or TWBC commentary.
Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.